USC 6714

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P235524

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P235524.

Transliteration

kiszib3# lu2#-kal#-la#
8(disz) udu 1(disz) masz2
kiszib3 lugal#-[szu]-nir
siskur2 giri3# ru-ba-ti er2-du8
4(disz) udu 8(disz) masz2
kiszib3# a#-bi2-a
3(disz) masz2 kiszib3 nu-ra-a a-bi2-a
7(disz) masz2 1(disz) udu
kiszib3 giri3-ni-i3-sa6
1(disz) masz2 kiszib3 ensi2
4(disz) udu 3(disz) masz2
ga?-U-sze3-musz3 iszib? i3-dab5
[n] udu# 5(disz) masz2 gub-ba ki a-bi2#-[a-ta]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — USC 6714. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Archaeological Research Collection, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA (P235524) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P235524..

Related tablets

Related sources

~3200 BCE

Proto-Cuneiform Account Tablet

One of the earliest specimens of human writing. Not literature, not law — accounting. The need to keep track of grain in a temple bureaucracy is what pushed marks-on-clay into a system that could one day carry epics.

~3500 BCE

Kish Tablet

Marks the boundary between proto-writing and writing. We can see signs being used systematically — but not yet phonetically. The leap to recording speech itself comes a few centuries later.

~2450 BCE

Stele of the Vultures

The earliest historical document in human history. Before this, we have lists, accounts, and dedications. Here, for the first time, a ruler tells us what happened — with names, places, and consequences.